Abdelali Elghanjawi answers “Should I read this?”

CDMA asked this question about On the Road:

Should I read this?

Abdelali Elghanjawi Shame on you Eric to pose as someone who knows when you haven't an inkling about that book. kEROUAC in essence belongs to a trend which is Post-modern…moreShame on you Eric to pose as someone who knows when you haven't an inkling about that book. kEROUAC in essence belongs to a trend which is Post-modernism. post-modern authors announce their break with all that's modern, whether in terms of the narative used or the aestithic approach to the novel as a genre. postmodern authors such as T.Pynchon will give the reader hard time in keeping up with them, and it is mainly due to the extended paragraphs, and the overuse of quotation, semi-colons. will you please do yourself a favour and attend some philosophy course on Post-modernism, and by the end of the course you'll be seeing Kerouac in another light. Kind Regards.(less)

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